policies) and labour and total factor productivity growth in 20 EU Member States over the 1991–2008 period. The empirical …. As regards the relation between flexicurity variables and productivity growth, panel regression estimates showed that … association with labour and total factor productivity growth. On the other hand, rigid employment protection and high expenditures …

profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link … between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take …

productivity. Both, with the addition of the price ratio, determine the productivity of capital, a key variable in understanding …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth of within-firm productivity changes and between … what extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels as compared to variation thereof. Our key finding … is an overall weak relationship between productivity and growth, and therefore a weak power of selection forces in all …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …